Further Resources
Clean Energy and Environmental Curriculum Resources
- University of Washington Clean Energy Institute Lesson Plans & Resources – all grade levels, NGSS aligned
- Free Energy Efficiency, HVAC & Workforce Training | San Diego LEARN
- Services – The Energy Coalition
- Map – San Diego Clean Energy Pathways
- Environment & Sustainability Programs | UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies
- What are the California CTE Career Pathways?
- 5 Reasons To Go Into HVAC As A Career
- UN SDG Goal 7 information, events, targets, and progress
- World’s Largest Lesson Resources for SDG 7
- Education and the Environment Initiative curriculum (History, Social Sciences, Sciences, includes Spanish translation)
- The LEARN Program offers free energy efficiency and electrification courses
- California Climate Jobs Plan on a just transition and jobs created in achieving California’s climate goals
- CGEP Teaching for Sustainable Communities
Clean Energy Apprenticeship Programs
- SD City College Apprenticeship Programs
- Apprenticeship Program | Black Contractors Association
- HVAC training at Chula Vista, CA, UEI College
- Electrical Trade Schools Near You – Electrical Career Now
- Apprenticeship – ABC San Diego
- Internship Program – San Diego Water Works
- WorkforceConnect
- California Youth Apprenticeship
- Apprenticeship Track Jobs in the USA | Top Openings | Jobrapido
- South Texas Vocational Technical Institute
- Student Experience Program | Department of Energy
- USAJOBS Help Center – Students
- Programs — NAWIC San Diego
- SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS | Women’s Construction Coalition | San Diego — Women’s Construction Coalition
Maps with Local Scale Data
- CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Identifies California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution.
- Instructions and worksheets for completing a Community Environmental Justice Screening (using CalEnviroScreen) and a community demographics inventory (using US Census data)
- Map of the US with all data on current energy infrastructure locations
- Alternative Fuel Stations – Data is from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is updated daily
- Where are Housing Units that are Heated by Solar? – American Community Survey Census tract level data
- Solar Infrastructure in the US
- Wind Farms and Live Weather Assessment
- US Wind Turbine Database – Land-based and offshore wind turbines in the United States from USGS USWTDB
- Justice40 Atlas Disadvantaged and Partially Disadvantaged Census Tracts provides data for 8 categories of burden defined by the Justice40 Environmental Justice Initiative of the White House: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development
- Environmental characteristics of electric power generation facilities (eGRID)
